Ryan Packer
Ryan Packer has been writing for The Urbanist since 2015, and currently reports full-time as Contributing Editor. Their beats are transportation, land use, public space, traffic safety, and obscure community meetings. Packer has also reported for other regional outlets including BikePortland, Seattle Met, and PubliCola. They live in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle.
Seattle celebrated Bike Everywhere Day on May 19th, an inclusive alternative to Bike to Work Day that celebrates the idea that bikes are transportation...
After weeks of speculation, the Seattle City Council appears to be rushing to put together a framework that could allow private bikeshare operators to...
NE 65th Street is one of the most collision-prone corridors in North Seattle. There have been 231 crashes on the street between Ravenna Boulevard...
In April, both houses of the Washington State Legislature succeeded in a passing a long-anticipated update to our state's distracted driving law. The bill...
For the past two years, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has attempted to try out an idea that works well in high-volume pedestrian-oriented...
In the new book Drawdown, editor Paul Hawken, an environmentalist and author, lays out 80 solutions to reverse global warming by 2050: modest, attainable goals to...
Seattle, we need to talk. It's undeniable that we are creating the model for an urban high-tech corridor that eschews the inefficient sprawl that...
The repaving schedule for arterial streets in Seattle didn't used to register on the radar of urbanists and safe streets activists. The Seattle Department of...